2022 Submissions

CYA Awardees

Presidential Award

Exceptional Award

Categories

Creative Writing

Music Composition

Music Performance

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Untitled

My artwork was based upon my love of nature. I fused repeating patterns in the drawing to reflect the order found in nature.

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Pumpkin

In November, I was gifted a pumpkin with an unusual stem.

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Golden Hour

My Photography represents community and family.

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Psychadelic

Once they left, I wanted to capture that beauty she saw, the foreign and new visual that didn't look like anything she'd seen before.

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Dreamer’s Bed

To me, it doesn’t matter much if an image is visually appealing if it doesn’t strike me with any emotion.

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Disordered

Disorder in the occipital lobe can cause disorder of the brain.

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Untitled

I made this during my multimedia art class. It was made to make you think about who you are and what your looking forwards to.

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The Living Bubbles

This piece is called, "The Living Bubbles," this captured the moment of the fluidity of a jellyfish. In life we all must be fluid, moving where life takes us, and a jellyfish does exactly that, they flow through the ocean, where ever the current takes them.

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Como la Flor

This means to me each time I take a picture, it will show how life back then changed so much in 2021 and taking pictures brings me peace and joy to see surrounding.

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Autumn Bliss

My work is intended to bring the viewer into the scene, for them to feel present. I attempt to make my photos communicative and relatable, something one could look at and feel connected to.

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the train stop

I started by making this image because I just needed a distraction from what was going on my life at that point, so I called my friend and asked if he wanted to go take some random pictures.

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Reflection of colors

This photo has helped me reach some goals like getting the right angle and the perfect lighting all in the same photo. I could not be more proud of myself. I learned that with the right amount of dedication it will lead me to my expectations.

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A Burst of Sun

A peaceful sunset in the California rainy season seen from the leisurely flowing Alameda Creek.

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The Hand

This photo is part of a larger installation of photos highlighting the multi-dimensional stories and identities of women.

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Frozen in time

I saw a puddle and wanted to do something with water and capture someones foot stepping in water.

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Geyser

The geyser was still for a second so I walked as close as I could to take the photo and capture the the color in the scene.

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Sunset

This photo was taken by me when I during leadership retreat I went to with my class and saw the sunset.

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Transparent

When capturing this photo, I wanted my friend to appear like a ghost or someone who is in the state of life and death.

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Piano Player

In this image, I wanted to convey the movement of a musician as they played the piano.

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Sand Dune Cycle

I knew I had a great photo opportunity in my hands so I took out my 24-70 2.8 and took this photo of one of the guys making a jump over one of the dunes.